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A projection map of the two-dimensional Sap array has been established on deflated bacteria. In this work, the authors used two approaches to investigate whether Sap<jats:sub>c<\/jats:sub> is the crystallization domain. The purified Sap<jats:sub>c<\/jats:sub> polypeptide (604\u2005aa) was sufficient to form a crystalline structure, as illustrated by electron microscopy. Consistent with this result, the entire Sap<jats:sub>c<\/jats:sub> domain promoted auto-interaction in a bacterial two-hybrid screen developed for the present study. The screen was derived from a system that takes advantage of the <jats:italic>Bordetella pertussis<\/jats:italic> cyclase subdomain structure to enable one to identify peptides that interact. A screening strategy was then employed to study Sap<jats:sub>c<\/jats:sub> subdomains that mediate interaction. A random library, derived from the Sap<jats:sub>c<\/jats:sub> domain, was constructed and screened. The selected polypeptides interacting with the complete Sap<jats:sub>c<\/jats:sub> were all larger (155\u2005aa and above) than the mean size of the randomly cloned peptides (approx. 60 residues). This result suggests that, in contrast with observations for other interactions studied with this two-hybrid system, large fragments were required to ensure efficient interaction. 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